The Review Without a Name

This refers to a comparison between two, unlike things that continue throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

• metonymy

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• litotes

This is a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.

• figure of speech

• aphorism

• atmosphere

• ellipsis

This is a literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader.

• mood

• metonymy

• atmosphere

• imagery

This is a literary device in which contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true.

• antecedent

• euphemism

• irony

• litotes

This tree is the god of the forest. - is an example of which literary device?

• aphorism

• metaphor

• mood

• simile

"He's not the sharpest tool in the shed" is an example of which literary device?

• hyperbole

• metonymy

• litotes

• analogy

This is a figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.

• ellipsis

• anachronism

• irony

• litotes

This is a type of figurative language in which an object or concept is referred to not by its own name, but instead by the name of something closely associated with it.

• ethos

• synechdoche

• metonymy

• figure of speech

"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of which literary device?

• analogy

• aphorism

• allusion

• metonymy

This is a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art.

• analogy

• allusion

• figure of speech

• imagery